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The following accounts were taken from Columbia County Sheriff’s office incident reports:

Sister uses pepper spray on brother

A Grovetown woman said she sprayed her brother with pepper spray early Thursday because he attacked her.

The 22-year-old woman said her brother was upset at about 2 a.m. over a Twitter post and confronted her. Their mother tried to break up the fight, but the woman said her brother went around their mother and started hitting her. He then kicked and choked her.

The following accounts were taken from Columbia County Sheriff’s office incident reports:

Dogs attack Evans woman

An Evans woman was injured Saturday when she was attacked by two of her neighbor’s dogs.

The 70-year-old woman said she was walking her Pomeranian in Ashford Place subdivision just before 8 a.m. when her dog was attacked by two Labrador retriever/Pit Bull terrier mixed breed dogs. As she tried to help her dog, the dogs attacked her.

The following account was taken from Columbia County Sheriff’s office incident reports:

Man scammed

A man was scammed out of $20,000 Thursday.

The 58-year-old man said he was loading items in his truck at the Lowe’s on Bobby Jones Expressway at about 3:30 p.m. when a stranger approached him, asking for a ride to a Davis Road McDonald’s. At McDonald’s, the stranger began talking to a man in a jumpsuit about not trusting people and banks with money.

The following account was taken from Columbia County Sheriff’s office incident reports:

Man arrested for indecency

An Appling man accused of exposing himself in three counties was arrested this week.

Chad Eric Stefani, 24, of Johns Road, was charged with public indecency in Richmond County on Monday. After he was released on bond, Stefani turned himself in to Columbia County authorities Tuesday on one count of public indecency.

A Lincolnton, Ga., man involved in a June 1 wreck that killed a newlywed and injured his bride was charged Thursday.

Torvory Orverice Curry, 35, turned himself in to authorities and was charged with driving on a suspended license and open container. He was released from the Columbia County Detention Center Thursday after posting a $2,200 bond, according to jail records.

The following account was taken from Columbia County Sheriff’s office incident reports:

Teen arrested after attack on deputy

An Evans teen was arrested late Thursday after he reportedly was intoxicated at an Evans movie theater and lunged for a deputy’s weapon.

William Robert Watson, 17, of Sweet Bay Court, was charged with criminal trespass, terroristic threats, obstruction and minor in possession. He was released from the Columbia County Detention Center on Friday after posting a $12,400 bond, according to jailers.

McCarty was taken to the hospital’s trauma center shortly after 2 p.m. Wednesday after falling from the golf car and striking his head on the pavement, said Columbia County Sheriff’s Capt. Steve Morris.

Prosecution of an Augusta woman charged with the stabbing death of her toddler will continue.

Columbia County Magistrate Judge Jason Troiano determined at a preliminary hearing Tuesday morning that there is enough evidence against Marina Mae Middlebrooks, 29, to proceed with prosecution in Superior Court.

Middlebrooks is charged with murder and cruelty to children in the death of her daughter, Sky Lyric Allen, 2.